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by ctrlp 2y ago
This has been my experience with it as well. It appears to regulate the spike of caffeine from coffee. I recall reading it had to do with an enzyme that helped the body process caffeine so it attentuates the effect of the stimulant. Whether
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by ctrlp 2y ago
I'm not sure what evidence could convince someone so dead set against the legitimacy of conjecture. I'm one (along with Aristotle and others) who credits inference to the best explanation as a valid form of reasoning. You seem m
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by ctrlp 2y ago
It struck me as stupid and pointless to poison Navalny. Why bother? His presence seemed a nuisance at worst and a useful foil at best. Is there just something in the Russia soul that can resist assassination plots by poison?
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Yes, as you say, an organized shutdown. That is my belief as well. I also believe that national security considerations were a factor and dominance of Ukraine was a policy goal of the West to permanently sever Russia from its Eastern Europe
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by ctrlp 2y ago
My arguments don't preclude "legitimate research." Nor do I claim there is only a single reductive reason for something. I'm struck by recent revelations about the Wuhan lab and the kinds of research that are conducted v
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by ctrlp 2y ago
My arguments are made in the context of the post cold war breakup of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine. The Soviets had a program of bioweapons research. The same concerns about nuclear arms containment after 1989 applied to this program,
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Here is noted neocon and Ukraine hawk Victoria Nuland's testimony confirming the existence biolabs in Ukraine and expressing concern for their integrity: "I only have a minute left. Let me ask you, does Ukraine have chemical or bi
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by ctrlp 2y ago
the stegotech, a mythical beast that, unlike the BOFH, will not bite the hand that submits a support ticket
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by ctrlp 2y ago
what sort of cryptid are you?
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Possibly sold by an insider through unofficial channels?
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Why were prominent US policy folks so concerned about the Ukraine biolabs? Why did the US invest hundreds of millions to build dozens of labs in Ukraine? I'll tell you what I think. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US saw newly
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by ctrlp 2y ago
You seem quite animated and zealous about the topic and I certainly don't want to antagonize you. I don't recognize my own positions in your portrait. You seem very passionate about it and I suppose you have particular interests i
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Russian speakers live everywhere. Russian majority states are a smaller set than the old USSR.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Agree that China is playing a long game and has tremendous patience. If I read your argument right, you're saying that it is foolish to think Russia could be "won over" to Europe, that they were always destined to be autocrat
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by ctrlp 2y ago
I have only bought into my readings in history. The events I credit are: - The 1970s opening of China by Nixon and the documented policy goals contra the USSR. - The waning years of the Cold War when the Soviet Union was weakened and fallin
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Respectfully, you clearly don't know much about the history or about geopolitics if you believe such things.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
That is true and also deliberate US policy to ensure there would never be a strong Russia again. Russia has always loomed large over Europe since probably the Huns. There have been times when the Russian state was Europhilic (e.g., Peter th
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Before the negative reviews come pouring, consider that the rise of China was the result of exactly this strategy in reverse. At the time "Nixon in China" was an attempt to support a largely agrarian Chinese communist state to giv
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by ctrlp 2y ago
The US would be quite lucky if Russia turned back to a frenemy relationship with NATO. It seems highly unlikely that will happen given the last 15 years of conflict. The attempt to Balkanize and neuter Russia looks like an abject failure. T
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Floating Worlds is another source of Gorey letters. They are interesting in their art but also have pervasive lovesickness for (and ignored by) his correspondent suggested (to this reader) throughout.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
In this sense, I see adoption among some people as akin to nootropics or attention management drugs like modafinil. A way to have more control over your own mind. Interesting times, I guess, but caveat emptor.
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by ctrlp 2y ago
I've heard similar accounts and it sounds pretty wild. I'm not overweight and don't take anything but I do enjoy food. It would be horrible to me to lose the enjoyment of such a primal pleasure. If the choice is between being
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by ctrlp 2y ago
I agree with your take. We are stretched too thin and our "allies" have become frenemies. We need to fix our domestic problems or we won't have a country worth preserving. Certainly, at this rate we won't be strong enoug
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by ctrlp 2y ago
This is why Europe must remilitarize and police its own neighborhood on behalf of western security. Probably not going to happen under the EU, which has no ability to assert muscular sovereign leadership. There is no unified Europe at the m
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It is the consensus view of the foreign establishment. You can argue for an isolationist foreign policy. We do have a "big beautiful ocean" separating us from the problems of the world. But global powers have a way of competing wi
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by ctrlp 2y ago
Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island commands the world. — Mackinder, Democratic Ideals and Reality, p. 150
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by ctrlp 2y ago
How many non-US combat troops do you think were involved in Iraq and Afghanistan? How many troops do you think European NATO members will commit to a hot war in Ukraine? I agree that the Ukrainians are battle-hardened in a way few other c
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Not many fired a bullet.
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Ukraine is a buffer state to constrain Russia's westward ambitions. Think of it as an unfortunate flat road connecting Asia and Europe, ideal for military movement (especially Russian tank warfare). It is seen as a linchpin or "he
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by ctrlp 2y ago
The US just fought a 20 year war and shed quite a bit of blood and treasure. It also appears the US military has been "in country" in Ukraine under special non-uniformed deployments (read "on loan officially as mercenaries&qu

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